Finding Winter

 Found it!

Thanks Matt, great trip, great images!

Goods

So the Bitterroots

are BIG.

"West Chute"

The terrain ranges from awesome and mellow

 to awesome and committing.

I moved to Missoula two winters ago. This winter I was able to ski somewhere new nearly every weekend and each passing weekend become more more excited for the next. My excitement, it seems, is ever increasing, and unending.

Perspective 1

Perspective.

We can gain it, choose it, make it... A versatile thing perspective is. Related to relativity. Choice of perspective I suppose is an act that makes use of relativity.

The practice of choosing perspective can be very creative. Or destructive.

A fragment of thought at best I know. 

Play

Among other things, skiing to me is play.

Everything is made fun, as a little one, by the use of imagination. I used to look out the bus window on the way to school. I would imagine myself, running alongside, dodging and leaping, faster and higher than humanly possible. These imaginations seems to hold a gentle, kind of friendly significance. 

That kind of imagination, though a grand part of a young persons life, has less impact as we age. Mostly lost as unexpressed thought or hidden away in the depths of memory.

Now, I cant help but feel that so many aspects of life have significance in a more forceful adversarial way. Money particularly forces significance upon us. Its imaginary, useful, but appears empty and without any intrinsic significance.

Necessarily significant: Money, budget, work.

Voluntarily significant: Skis, climbing gear, worry, ...

Intrinsically significant: sunshine, birdsong, rocks, waves, friends, rest, play...

Where does Imagination fall? What about adventure and risk?

Thanks Luke, for the images. And Luke, Betsy and Adri for being significant (read: Awesome!)